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Article: WOMEN AT SEA: THEY ONCE WERE BARRED FROM NAVAL VESSELS.(PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 25, 2002
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Byline: ALAN FLANDERS
From the mists of ancient maritime traditions, old salts used to say it was bad luck to bring a woman aboard a ship. It seems ironic that even though most of the ships bore female names, women were forbidden aboard a naval or merchant vessel.
As if to reinforce the point, the practice of carrying women to sea on board U.S. ships-of-war was forbidden by Navy regulations of 1802, 1818, 1841, 1857, 1876, 1881, 1896, 1900, 1905, 1909, and 1920.
For the most part, the message was curt and blunt. The regulation of 1802 read: "He (Captain or commander) is not to carry any women to sea without orders from the navy office, or the ...